Paul Reed has a rule of thumb for distinguishing the important painters of his day. At 92, he is the last of the Washington Color School, a band of painters who captured the art-world flag from New York for a period in the 1950s and '60s.
Our critics look ahead to the warmer months and highlight what spring has in store on area stages, museum walls, concert halls and movie screens.
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The National Gallery of Art has acquired a key landscape of the untamed American West, its third painting by the celebrated 19th century artist Thomas Moran.
The Beauty of Xiaohe, a mummy from the torrid deserts of western China, had a long but uneventful trip to Philadelphia.
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